Seattle Art Museum:
Stories of Krishna: Adventures of a Hindu God.
Guardian.UK:
Napoleon’s wallpaper. For some strange reason, this title strikes me as an excellent name for a band.
NY Times Arts:
Rose-Red City Carved from Rock. Petra.
CNN:
A ship’s bell may identify unknown paddlewheeler wreck. And if it’s the ship they believe it to be, there may be a trove to be recovered.
NY Times Obit:
British wartime hero, and model for “James Bond,” dies. “I have never read a Bond book or seen a Bond movie. They are not my style. ... And I only ever loved one woman, and I’m not a drinking man.” A Shirley Temple, shaken not stirred, Bjorg, m’dear? Rest in peace, sir.
Archaeology:
2004 World Monuments Watch List of the 100 Most Endangered Sites announced.
The
Boston Globe:
Sounds like Olive Lee would have been a very interesting person to meet. She passed away Oct. 1.
Santa Fe New Mexican:
Studies show Chaco ancients used complex food delivery system. There are also theories that Chaco was a huge communal food dissemination spot. But I can’t imagine double-carrying food. Either way, it seems to bespeak a very ‘rich’ culture in my mind, to be able to support this kind of extravagance. Carrying food 50 miles in mocassins ... gives me blisters just thinking about it.
CNN:
George Plimpton has passed away. Revered for The Paris Review, yes. As a writer, yes. But in my memory, I revere him for his takedown of Sirhan Sirhan with Roosevelt (Rosie) Greer, after Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. A case of the pen and needlepoint needle being more powerful than the gun (sword). Rest in peace.
NY Times:
Nathan Hale, slandered, restored.
BBC:
Prehistoric “Monster Guinea Pig.”
Turkish Daily News:
The Christian medieval sources of the West’s ‘New World Order’ .
Archaeology:
A sight which can never be forgotten. The Sand Creek Massacre was particularly heinous; you’ll recall it’s rendering in fiction if you’ve ever read Michener’s “Centennial.”
NY Times:
Self-evident truths, now more self-evident. “The Constitution is in very good condition. It’s very strong and very legible.” Well now, that’s especially good to hear.
CNN:
Monty Python fans flock to Scottish castle. Funny connections, in this. Didn’t realize John Witherspoon spent time incarcerated in the castle. Some Princetonian I am!
9/11.
I pause, remember those lost, and turn the page. I see I’ll have to work hard to avoid the maudlin today.
Reuters:
Dugout boat, maybe Viking era, found in Norway.
Library of Congress:
The Meeting of Frontiers. “... a bilingual, multimedia English-Russian digital library that tells the story of the American exploration and settlement of the West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.”
Watching archaeology ...
Phluzein. I followed an interesting link to contraception in ancient times.
CNN:
Freshmen know “bling bling,” not Paul Newman. I think this is part of my problem grokking hip-hop. A generation gap has snuck up on me, and boxed my ears. Youth culture doesn’t seem to have filtered upwards in the same way it has in the past.
I remember my seventh-grade social studies teacher ... early 70’s ... he actually wore leather hip-boots to class. Laces on his shirts. A cross between Austin Powers and Waylon Jennings (improbable as that sounds). We had *nothing* in common. No commonalities on which to base communications, other than the fact we were both human.
In college, I had to suffer profs who still retained the disco/polyester dress code and ‘moves,’ long after the demise of disco. Our only commonality was a shared experience of disco pop culture. Boston and Foreigner had debuted; Lynyrd Skynyrd had just crashed; noone expected the dominance Southern Rock was to have. Nevertheless, disco was *so* out; our profs were satires, burlesque.
This generation seems to have been spared middle-aged profs sporting bowl haircuts and jeans around their hip-sockets displaying their Fruit-of-the-Looms. So far. They may just be late (as usual) picking up on the trends; or maybe the Boomers have gotten so old they have no flex anymore.
Better that there’s an open-minded middle ground, really. No charades. And it’s one hell of a lot easier on the eyes.
Prospect Magazine:
Two years of gibberish. Comes close at times, but never touches the fuze wire.
CNN:
‘Mummy of Nefertiti’ may be male.
Holiday Inn
Guardian.UK:
Britain’s longest-continuously-inhabited dwelling. You realize, Santa Fe has America’s ... since approx. 1200’s. It’s still slated to become a museum.